Nancy Pelosi is claiming that 98% of ALL catholic women use some type of contraceptive

If that were true, wacko pelosi wouldn't be here among us mortals to make such an idiotic out-right fabricate lie of a statement. Sometimes I believe that retro-active abortions should be legal and applicable to wacko leftist libs!

"Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed.

A new report from the Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit sexual health research organization, shows that only 2 percent of Catholic women, even those who regularly attend church, rely on natural family planning.

The latest data shows practices of Catholic women are in line with women of other religious affiliations and adult American women in general."

I have no data but my own personal friends..and every Catholic woman I know is using birth control. My best friend is devoutly Catholic and even she used BC..and her husband had a vasectomy after #4. And that's BC too.

I think what Pelosi said was an unsubstantiated WAG for the sake of trying to make an impact, but I do believe that Catholic women are in line using BC like most other women are. The ones I know just don't take the Churches stance on that issue for their own.

A new report from the Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit sexual health research organization, shows that only 2 percent of Catholic women, even those who regularly attend church, rely on natural family planning.

Hilarious. I think your issue is with this organiztion, the Guttmacher Institute.

It's a made up issue. If the media is discussing this they don't need to look at other issues. The use of birth control is up, births are down, abortions are down and the overall birth rate the US is down.

I think what Pelosi said was an unsubstantiated WAG for the sake of trying to make an impact, but I do believe that Catholic women are in line using BC like most other women are. The ones I know just don't take the Churches stance on that issue for their own.

I don't doubt that Catholic women use contraceptive methods at a very high rate. But 98%? Seems a bit of an exaggeration.

In 20062008, about 93% had ever had a partner use the male condom; 82% of women had used the oral contraceptive pill; and 59% had had a partner who used withdrawal. About 1 in 5 women had used the 3-month

The Guttmacher Institute, an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., was established in 1968 to provide research, policy analysis and education in the fields of reproductive health, reproductive rights and population. It was named to honor a distinguished obstetrician-gynecologist, author and leader in reproductive rights. While Alan F. Guttmacher was president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and a leader in the International Planned Parenthood Federation in the 1960s and early 1970s, he saw the need for the institution that now bears his name, and he nurtured its development.

The Guttmacher Institute is a non-profit organization which works to advance reproductive health including abortion rights. The institute operates in the United States and globally "through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education."[1][2] According to their mission statement, this program aims to "generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate, promote sound policy and program development and, ultimately, inform individual decision making."[1]